Glarner Hauptüberschiebung
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 50 B: 50
- Rank
- tectonic
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Glarner Hauptüberschiebung
- Français
- chevauchement principal de Glaris
- Italiano
- sovrascorrimento principale di Glarona
- English
- Glarus main thrust
- Historical Variants
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--- (Bertrand 1884), basal thrust of the Helvetic nappes = Glarus overthrust (Pfiffner 1977), Glarus Overthrust (Lihou 1995), Glarus thrust (Steck 2008), Glarus Thrust (von Däniken & Frehner 2017, Gouffon et al. 2024)
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.31: East of the Thunersee, the boundary between the Lower Helvetic and the Upper Helvetic is formed by major out-of-sequence thrusts of the second [deformation] phase, which cut the entire structural framework formed during the first phase; from west to east these are the Axen and the Glarus thrusts. As a consequence of this out-of-sequence thrusting, units of Ultrahelvetic origin are now found both above and below these major thrust faults, i. e., in the Upper Helvetic and in the Lower Helvetic subdomains, respectively.